Charles E. Gannon

Charles E. Gannon is a novelist, and a game designer who has worked primarily on hard science-fiction and role-playing games.

Charles Gannon wrote Hard Times (1991), a MegaTraveller book which pushed the background metaplot up by six years. Gannon wrote many articles in Challenge magazine about "The Hinterworlds", a sector of space in the Imperium of the Traveller universe.

Gannon has also written novels in the 1632 series, including 1635: The Papal Stakes (2012), 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies (2014), and 1636: The Vatican Sanction (2015). His novels Fire with Fire and Trial by Fire were both nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel (in 2014 and 2015 respectively). He was nominated again in 2016 for Raising Caine, and in 2020 for Marque of Caine.